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Buffalo Bird Woman
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“It was usual for the women of a household to do their own planting; but if a woman was sick, or for some reason was unable to attend to her planting, she sometimes cooked a feast, to which she invited the members of her age society and asked them to plant her field for her.”
Buffalo Bird Woman, Hidatsa Indian-U.S. farmer/gardener
(1839 - 1918)
Born: Maxidiwiac.